Agriculture from Around the world

[Pilatus]

How much of a problem is salinity around the world,effecting crop production.

 

[oil barron]

How much of a problem is salinity around the world,effecting crop production.

I think the problem is dropping water tables in groundwater reservoirs. This means 1. Water is not available to flush away salt. 2. The deeper you go the more saline it becomes. A lot of the world has been mining water.

 

[Pilatus]

Is that the cause of large areas of saline soils in Australia and Eastern Block countries?

 

[Dragon]

Is that the cause of large areas of saline soils in Australia and Eastern Block countries?

i think thats correct,
@oil barron so it seems water has been "mined", its just a race to the bottom

 

[Santosh]

hey guys spending hard time for irrigation,no water no rain [emoji18]

 

[Philip Watkins]

View attachment 338722hey guys spending hard time for irrigation,no water no rain [emoji18]

Soil not sliding off the plough much!

 

[decotipp]

Very interesting to read through this thread of agriculture from around the world some very interesting stories.

I myself have been working out in Central America for the last 2 and a half years in the production of Bananas and mainly Pineapples, I spent nearly a year in Belize on banana operations and the last year and a half at Pineapples in Costa Rica and Panama. The work here is very hands on, and on the farm I am on now which is 480HA we have a workforce of 375 full time staff all whom speak spanish.

We export produce mainly to mainland Europe, Uk and Ireland and then up to the USA and some to the Caribbean and down to Chile. We grow and pack ourselves 8 million boxes of Pineapples each year so thats about 75 million single pineapples.

I come from a dairy farm in Tipperary so the world of Tropical farming was all new to me!

Any questions just ask, I will upload photos.

 

[llamedos]

Very interesting to read through this thread of agriculture from around the world some very interesting stories.

I myself have been working out in Central America for the last 2 and a half years in the production of Bananas and mainly Pineapples, I spent nearly a year in Belize on banana operations and the last year and a half at Pineapples in Costa Rica and Panama. The work here is very hands on, and on the farm I am on now which is 480HA we have a workforce of 375 full time staff all whom speak spanish.

We export produce mainly to mainland Europe, Uk and Ireland and then up to the USA and some to the Caribbean and down to Chile. We grow and pack ourselves 8 million boxes of Pineapples each year so thats about 75 million single pineapples.

I come from a dairy farm in Tipperary so the world of Tropical farming was all new to me!

Any questions just ask, I will upload photos.

Welcome along, looking forward to reading about Pineapple production & seeing the photos, are they propagated from seed, and how long to bear fruit, do they re fruit?

 

[decotipp]

Welcome along, looking forward to reading about Pineapple production & seeing the photos, are they propagated from seed, and how long to bear fruit, do they re fruit?

Each plant after fruit harvest will grow whats known as a slip or sucker off the peduncle of the mother plant, when these slips reach suitable weights we extract them off the mother plant by hand and re plant them, 72,000 slips per hectare all planted by hand no machine!

Time from planting to harvest is 14 months and then seed extraction for another 3 to 4 months depending on quality and availability of the slips developing.

If we got a good yield in our first harvest we take the decision to allow it bear fruit into whats known as second crop. If not we enter with our land prep machinery and re start the process of working down the land.

 

[decotipp]

Cultivation works Costa Rica

 

[Tractorstant]

Kubota working in the Port of Monaco this morning, grading sand for the show jumping.

 

[Santosh]

dairy farming is developing in #india now a days because better price for milk new government Rocks